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comment by tigrennatenn
tigrennatenn  ·  3174 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How trustworthy is a search engine that filters results?

    How can you be sure that you are getting the best results and not a biased list based on manual interventions and tweaks?

You can be sure that you are getting a biased list based on manual interventions and tweaks. Fundamentally, this is how every aboveboard search engine has to operate, unless they're willing to literally fight sovereign governments. US government demands censorship? Google has to comply. They don't have a choice.

OTOH, some tech companies (including Google) have shown a somewhat disturbing trend toward being... shall we say... more cooperative than they have to be with government surveillance and censorship.